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Definition of 'spar'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) spar
a stout pole such as those used for masts; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.

2.  spar
a principal lateral member of the framework of a wing of an airplane.

3. (v.t.) spar
to provide or make with spars.

4. (v.i.) spar
(of a boxer) to make the motions of attack and defense with the arms and fists, esp. as a part of training.

5.  spar
to box, esp. with light blows.

6.  spar
to strike or attack with the feet or spurs, as gamecocks do.

7.  spar
to bandy words; dispute.

8. (n.) spar
a motion of sparring.

9.  spar
a boxing match.

10.  spar
a dispute.

11. (n.) spar
any of various lustrous, nonmetallic, flaky minerals, as feldspar.

Etymology: (1575–85; back formation from sparstone spar, OE spærstān gypsum; cf. MLG spar)

Definition of 'spar'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) spar
any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable

2. (noun) spar
a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging

3. (verb) spar, sparring
making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer

4. (verb) spar
furnish with spars

5. (verb) spar
fight with spurs
"the gamecocks were sparring"

6. (verb) spar
box lightly

7. (verb) spar
fight verbally
"They were sparring all night"

Definition of 'spar'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) spar
an old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein

2. (noun) spar
a contest at sparring or boxing

3. (noun) spar
a movement of offense or defense in boxing

4. (verb) spar
a general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff

5. (verb) spar
formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters

6. (verb) spar
the bar of a gate or door

7. (verb) spar
to bolt; to bar

8. (verb) spar
to To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel

9. (verb) spar
to strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do

10. (verb) spar
to use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box

11. (verb) spar
to contest in words; to wrangle

Translation of 'spar'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a thick pole of wood or metal, especially one used as a ship's mast etc.
Afrikaans: mas	Arabic: سارِيَه	Bulgarian: греда
Brazilian: mastro	Czech: žerď	German: der Sparren
Danish: sparre	Greek: κοντάρι, κατάρτι	Spanish: palo, verga
Estonian: poom, (purje)peel	Farsi: ديرك بادبان	Finnish: parru
French: espar	Hebrew: תוֹרֶן	Hindi: डण्डा, बल्ला
Croatian: oblica, križ jarbola	Hungarian: gerenda	Indonesian: tiang
Icelandic: sigla, rá, bóma	Italian: asta	Japanese: 円材
Korean: (돛대, 활대 등으로 쓰이는) 원재(圓材)	Lithuanian: skersinis, sija	Latvian: takelāžas apaļkoks
Malay: spar	Dutch: paal	Norwegian: bjelke, stang, bom
Polish: pal, słup	Persian: ديرك بادبان	Pashto: په بيړى كښې بادبان
Portuguese: mastro	Romanian: vergă	Russian: рангоут
Slovak: žrď, rahno	Slovenian: jadrnik	Serbian: jarbol
Swedish: mast, bom, balk	Thai: เสาหรือไม้ค้ำยึดใบเรือ	Turkish: direk, seren
Taiwanese: 桅桿	Ukrainian: мачта; брус	Urdu: مستول کی بلّی
Vietnamese: trụ , cột	Chinese: 桅杆
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